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The Revolution in Tanner's Lane and Miriam's
Schooling
A story of social and religious turmoil in 19th-century England Mark Rutherford was a remarkable novelist of provincial life in 19th-century England, and has been compared with Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and Thomas Hardy. His theme was the social and religious upheaval in the decades following the Napoleonic Wars, described through his characters with insight and delicacy. ‘The Revolution in Tanner’s Lane’ describes revolutionary conspiracies in London, the brutal suppression of workers’ movements in Manchester, and the growth of provincial prosperity and complacency. This volume also includes ‘Miriam’s Schooling’, a short novel describing a young woman’s growth into self-knowledge. William Hale White, the ‘real’ Mark Rutherford, was a quiet civil servant born of a leading nonconformist family in Bedford. Only in his fifties did he start to publish his six novels, much admired in their day but now mostly unobtainable.
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